January 27th, 2010
The Ancient Pine Garden at Shantang Street is famous for a 500-year-old LuoHan pine of Ming Dynasty in the garden. It was originally the residence of a rich man Cai Shaoyu of Mudu, in the late Qing Dynasty. This garden is compact in overall arrangement and well preserved to the date. The well-decorated brick-carving gate tower is vivid both in appearance and manner. The eight lutes inscribed on the square rafters of the garden have the auspicious meaning of the get-together of eight notes . Such a style has no comparison among the gardens and architectures in the south of the Yangtze River. Being the prior-period pieces of the Engraved Building of the Dongshan town, the Phoenix Tower presents exactly the same architecture and engraving art.
The rear garden is featured as delicate, elegant, charming and gentle. Standing in the two-storeyed long corridor, people are able to enjoy the charming scenery of gardens and lively ancient pines; admiring the graceful view of the Linyan Hill in the distance. West side of the rear garden is the Chinese craft art master, the inheritor of Shen Shou—Yao Jianping’s Embroidery Showroom
